It might be more a matter of 'eptitude.' To me it is obvious that the elected national leadership of the DSA - the National Political Committee - is decoration for the actual national leadership. The actual national leadership is the larger and more-or-less permanent bureaucracy led most publicly by Maria Svart. I'm not nursing some personal antagonism to Svart but i think she personifies the continued original political nature of the DSA as a loyal Democrat Party ginger group. In my observation/opinion Svart *et al* lead the young politically inexperienced NPC around.
If you were Maria Svart in 2016+ watching DSA rapidly grow with tens of thousands of new radically-minded but organizationally naive young people would you explicitly and aggressively confront these young people with your reformist politics? I think you would generally keep your innermost politics to yourself and appear to be 'all things to all people.' So you can't provide leadership because you're muffling your politics and just letting the mushrooming growth (you didn't initiate) continue. Instead you are gently 'riding herd' on a huge sprawling 'hundred flowers blooming' in various forms all over a large nation. Maybe the best DSA outcome will be if an elected politically self-confident and knowledgeable young revolutionary socialist national leadership takes actual control of the organization. That would take some time to develop because in these recent growth years NPC potential national leadership has been stymied (imo to the satisfaction of Svart *et al*) by representation within it of several of the major competing caucuses with contrasting political perspectives from across the socialist political spectrum, including strong 'libertarian'/anarchist and reformist representation. Maybe a new national revolutionary socialist organization will be consolidated from among the many revolutionary-minded flowers blooming inside and outside DSA around the country. On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 5:18 PM Andrew Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > Their ineptitude never ceases to amaze me... On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:29 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.puntorojomag.org/2021/01/29/the-failures-of-the-dsa-are-going-to-get-us-killed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6603): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6603 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80806395/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
